The Lackawanna League season is off to a fast start.

Having to hold several meets virtually certainly does require a great deal of patience and bookwork for official scorers, but the season is moving forward and that is truly all that we could have hoped for at this point.

As expected, some of the stars returning from last season are off to good starts. In truth, though, they are all dealing with the reality that they are at a different stage of their seasons because they have not really had the intense training due to the delayed start.

Dunmore’s Maddie Healey.
Photo by Jake Danna Stevens

 

 

THIS WEEK’S WINNING TIMES

 

This season, ON THE BLOG is going to try and track the progress of the athletes with a recap of the winning times. Things will get a bit challenging with the multiple virtual meets on the schedule.

 

Girl athlete diving.

Victoria Watkins
WEST SCRANTON

 

GIRLS

200 Medley Relay
Scranton Prep (Forgione, L. Schofield, Cross, C. Schofield) 2:00.17
Delaware Valley (Hartmann, Ristaino, S. Gillan, Weinreb) 2:00.88
Dunmore (Healey, Alunni, Aydin, Escobar) 2:03.25
Valley View (Nemeth, Hubal, O’Leary, Zambetti) 2:05.67
West Scranton (Gallagher, Mangan, C. Ratchford, A. Ratchford) 2:20.87

200 Free
Tessa Mangan (SP) 2:10.72
Lily Nemeth (VV) 2:13.63
Victoria Corcoran (DV) 2:15.43
Madison O’Donnell (LAK) 2:16.70
Aubrey Mangan (WS) 2:19.91
Kaylee Butler (SCR) 2:25.76

Lauren Schofield
SCRANTON PREP

200 IM
Lauren Schofield (SP) 2:15.46
Maddie Healey (DUN) 2:21.46
Molly Hubal (VV) 2:23.84
Madison Gillan (DV) 2:27.71
Camryn Ratchford (WS) 2:58.48

50 Free
Nicole Iriza (SP) 25.59
Abby Brock (AH) 26.35
Julia Weinreb (DV) 27.51
Maddie Borders (CAR) 27.53
Camdyn Jervis (VV) 28.32
Katie Alunni (DUN) 28.96

Diving
Victoria Watkins (WS) 226.60
Victoria Willson (DV) 165.25
Dalia Ofalt (EL) 150.3

100 Fly
Mackenzie Cross (SP) 1:05.82
Kaitlyn O’Connell (DV) 1:06.85
Hailey O’Leary (VV) 1:14.31
Camryn Ratchford (WS) 1:23.65

100 Free
Nicole Iriza (SP) 55.6
Molly Hubal (VV) 57.91
Julia Weinreb (DV) 1:01.93
Victoria Watkins (WS) 1:12.61
Jaclyn Marichak (DUN) 1:14.15

Sierra Gillan
DELAWARE VALLEY

500 Free
Sierra Gillan (DV) 5:23.93
Nicole Benjamin (SP) 6:18.67
Della Noon (VV) 6:26.86
Payton Gallagher (WS) 7:14.52
Bella Cerra (SCR) 8:55.12

200 Free Relay
Scranton Prep (Cross, C. Schofield, Mangan, Iriza) 1:46.05
Delaware Valley (M. Gillan, Weinreb, Ruiz, Corcoran) 1:51.56
Valley View (Chiricos, M. Hubal, Naylor, L. Hubal) 2:03.67
Dunmore (Amico, Brazil, Alunni, Healey) 2:09.39
Abington Heights (Davidock, Clark, Kirtley, Rillstone) 2:19.83

100 Back
Sierra Gillan (DV) 1:02.43
Maddie Healey (DUN) 1:02.59
Lily Nemeth (VV) 1:05.98
Ava Forgione (SP) 1:07.79
Madison O’Donnell (LAK) 1:10.74
Payton Gallagher (WS) 1:23.88

100 Breast
Lauren Schofield (SP) 1:11.17
Abby Brock (AH) 1:13.73
Alexis Ristaino (DV) 1:15.15
Nicole Chiricos (VV) 1:17.49
Sophie Petraitis (SCR) 1:26.48

400 Free Relay
Scranton Prep (Mangan, Iriza, Forgione, L. Schofield) 3:54.26
Delaware Valley (M. Gillan, Hartmann, Corcoran, S. Gillan) 4:19.59
Valley View (Nemeth, O’Leary, Jervis, Connor) 4:29.46
Dunmore (Blockberger, Toole, Aydin, Marichak) 4:36.49
West Scranton (C. Ratchford, A. Ratchford, Watkins, Mangan) 4:44.69

 

 

Kevin Noldy
ELK LAKE

 

BOYS

200 Medley Relay
Delaware Valley (Holderith, Naturale, Santiago, Sussman) 1:51.42
Scranton Prep (Iannone, Kopa, Thayer, Galko) 1:51.48
Abington Heights (Richards, Guditus, Boersma, Vale) 2:03.81
Abington Heights (Richards, Lear, Boersma, Guditus) 2:06.3

Peter Kawash
LAKELAND

200 Free
Peter Kawash (LAK) 2:01.57
William Ong (SP) 2:07.64
Adam Vale (AH) 2:09.22
Matthew O’Connell (DV) 2:15.0
Geoffrey Brock (AH) 2:24.24

200 IM
Rory Naturale (DV) 2:23.09
Luke Healey (HC) 2:25.87
Quinn Grosvenor (EL) 2:29.25
Austin Langel (VV) 2:31.33
Kevin Guditus (AH) 2:31.48

50 Free
Lucas Santiago (DV) 23.08
Nathan Thayer (SP) 23.68
Nico Spataro (LAK) 24.89
Chris Lipscomb (WS) 26.80
Kenneth Lynch (AH) 29.62

Diving
Jacob Wenzel (DV) 202.9
Mark Nzasi (AH) 151.50
Mark Nzasi (AH) 143.75

Nathan Thayer
SCRANTON PREP

100 Fly
Nathan Thayer (SP) 58.69
Robert Holderith (DV) 59.37
Nico Spataro (LAK) 1:03.00
Zachary Boersma (AH) 1:05.19
Zachary Boersma (AH) 1:05.83

100 Free
Peter Kawash (LAK) 54.92
Kevin Guditus (AH) 55.88
Rory Naturale (DV) 56.12
Benjamin Galko (SP) 1:00.16
Aaron Fontanella (VV) 1:00.82

500 Free
Kevin Noldy (EL) 5:30.93
Adam Vale (AH) 6:10.44
Adam Vale (AH) 6:13.35
Scott Sussman (DV) 6:33.94

200 Free Relay
Delaware Valley (Naturale, Matyushin, O’Connell, Santiago) 1:40.24
Scranton Prep (Kopa, Walsh, Lynch, VanPelt) 1:50.46
Abington Heights (Boersma, Lear, Guditus, Vale) 1:51.36
Abington Heights (Boersma, Brock, Takehara, Guditus). 1:52.76

Lucas Santiago
DELAWARE VALLEY

100 Back
Kevin Noldy (EL) 58.78
Robert Holderith (DV) 1:02.72
Jacob Shultz (WS) 1:10.84
Damian Jenkins (VV) 1:14.33

100 Breast
Lucas Santiago (DV) 1:06.38
Luke Healey (HC) 1:11.50
Kevin Guditus (AH) 1:16.17
Zachary Shields (EL) 1:18.64
Geoffrey Brock (AH) 1:22.92

400 Free Relay
Scranton Prep (Thayer, Iannone, Ong, Galko) 3:48.62
Delaware Valley (Holderith, Sussman, Manning, Corcoran) 4:09.83
Abington Heights (Lynch, Richards, Wentz, Vale) 4:30.62
Abington Heights (Vale, Schiavone, Wentz, Lynch) 4:40.37

 

 


 

A LOOK AHEAD

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Scranton Prep at Scranton

Wallenpaupack at West Scranton

Valley View at Elk Lake

Valley View vs. Wallenpaupack (virtual)

 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Abington Heights at Delaware Valley

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING

Wallenpaupack at Scranton